SPITFIRE AUDIO Originals Cinematic Percussion User manual

Brand: SPITFIRE AUDIO

Model: Originals Cinematic Percussion

Type: User manual

SPITFIRE AUDIO Originals Cinematic Percussion offers a collection of essential untuned percussion instruments, recorded at London’s AIR Studios. Its 7 presets feature epic ‘Earthquake’ Hits and Swells for widescreen dramatic effect. With simple controls for volume, dynamics, and a configurable knob, you can easily adjust the sound to your liking. Additionally, 3 signals and 3 effects provide further customization options, while the dedicated plugin (AU, VST2, VST3, AAX) ensures seamless integration with your DAW.

ORIGINALS

CINEMATIC

PERCUSSION

USER MANUAL

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CONTENTS

Introduction 3

Quick Specs 3

Downloading & Installing 4

The Spitfire App Preferences 5

The Dedicated Plugin 6

Have A Look Around 7

Preset Selector 8

Main Controls 10

Signals and Effects 11

Top Menu 12

Microphone Signals 15

Appendix A — FAQs & Troubleshooting 17

Appendix B — Techniques/Mics/Mixes 21

Appendix C — Default CC Mappings 22

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INTRODUCTION

QUICK SPECS

Thank you for purchasing Originals - Cinematic Percussion, the fourth in a

series of simple and instant cinematic instruments.

• London’s best percussion players

• Recorded at London’s AIR Studios, home of blockbuster ﬁlm scores

• 7 presets featuring the essential untuned percussion instruments

• Includes epic ‘Earthquake’ Hits and Swells, for widescreen dramatic eect

• 3 signals

• 3 controls

• ~1.4GB

MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS 10.13 to OS X 12

PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, or

Windows 11 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

32-bit operating systems not supported.

• Disk space required: 1.4GB

• Dedicated plugin (AU, VST2, VST3, AAX)

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DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING

Thank you for buying Originals - Cinematic Percussion. If you are a total newbie to

this kind of thing you can get up to speed here: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/

basics/

First though, grab the ‘Spitfire Audio App’ from this link, this app will enable you

to download the library: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/library-manager/

THE SPITFIRE AUDIO APP

When you launch the app you will be

prompted to login using the same details

you use at our site. Then you’ll see the page

pictured below:

1. TABS the default tab is My Products, which

shows all of the libraries on your Spitfire

Account. Downloads will show currently

downloading products and Preferences

allows you to set default locations and

behaviours as described on the next page.

2. FILTERS clicking these filters will quickly

display products you’ve yet to install, those

already installed, and any available updates.

Clicking again will remove the filter.

3. LIBRARY All libraries and plugins in your

collection will appear with their artwork on

the My Products tab. Clicking this artwork

will open the product page. This is a great

place to find information such as system

requirements and instructions as well as

where to find Reset and Repair options.

4. INSTALL/UPDATE buttons allow you to

quickly start a download directly from the My

Products tab, instead of clicking through to

the Library. Next to the button the size of the

download is shown, you will need twice as

much available space to allow the download

to unzip correctly.

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THE SPITFIRE APP PREFERENCES

If this is your first time using the Spitfire

Audio App for a download you may wish to

first navigate to the Settings tab. Here you

can set the Default Content location as the

location where you wish to download your

libraries too. Also you can set the default

VST2 install location to the folder where your

DAW expects to find VST files.

Here you can also enable Auto Login to save

time in future.

Once you are happy with your preferences,

simply click the Install button for the library.

This is either directly on My Products tab

under the library artwork, or it can be found

by clicking on the library image and clicking

the install button on the page that appears.

Clicking either of these will prompt you for a

location, the default content location in your

preferences will be suggested but you can

select any suitable location.

Once you are happy with the location click

Download.

After clicking download you will be directed

to the Downloads tab where you can watch

the progress if you like. You can of course

leave the Downloads tab and start other

downloads but at this point you should leave

the Spitfire App open until the download

completes.

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THE DEDICATED PLUGIN

Unlike many Spitfire libraries, you don’t need

Kontakt Player or the full Kontakt to run this

library. Originals - Cinematic Percussion

is its own, all new, self contained plugin

built for VST, AU and AAX, so once you’ve

downloaded and installed you’re ready to go.

LOGIC PRO X

• On a fresh project, a track dialogue box will

automatically pop up

• Choose ‘Software Instrument’, and then

look beneath the ‘Instrument’ dropdown

• Select AU Instruments > Spitfire Audio >

Originals - Cinematic Percussion.

CUBASE

• Right-click the track window and choose

‘Add Instrument Track’

• Underneath the ‘Instrument’ dropdown,

choose Originals - Cinematic Percussion.

• Select ‘Add Track’

PRO TOOLS

• Go to the ‘Track’ menu at the top of the

screen, and select ‘New’

• In the pop-up, select Stereo and Instrument

Track, and press ‘Create’

• In the first Insert slot, select multichannel

plug-in and ‘Instrument’

• You should see the Originals - Cinematic

Percussion available as an option

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HAVE A LOOK AROUND

1. TOP MENU

2. PRESET SELECTOR

3. MAIN CONTROLS

4. SIGNALS AND EFFECTS

5. KEYBOARD & INFO

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OPENING YOUR FIRST PRESETS

When you first open Originals - Cinematic

Percussion, this is similar to what you will

see, though Epic Strings is pictured. It opens

on the Brass: Live preset.

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PRESET SELECTOR

1. PRESET NAME

Here you can see the currently selected

preset. Note that all presets are single

technique, like “Brass: Long”

2. CLEAR FILTERS

Click here to show all presets at once.

3. FILTERS

Click on a filter to only show those presets.

The filters are additive, so selecting “Simple”

and “Tweaked” will show you both the CS

presets and Legato Presets. Click the “Clear”

button to return to a view of all presets.

4. NEXT, PREVIOUS AND SAVE

With the presets view collapsed, you will

be able to see the Next, Previous and Save

icons. Next and Previous will simply send

you to the next available preset - if you have

a filter enabled, you will scroll through the

filtered set of presets. Save allows you to

save your own preset, click save, name the

preset and it will appear under the “user”

filter.

5678

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5. STAR

Clicking this star icon will add the preset to

the “Starred” filter.

6. PREVIEW

Play back a short example of the preset

without having to load it! Enormously helpful

when choosing a sound.

7. PRESET LIST

Scroll through the list of presets here.

Double-click to load a preset or click the

‘Load’ button.

8. INFORMATION

Hover over on the “i” icon to see some

information about the preset.

9. LOAD

Select a preset and then press “load” (or

double-click the preset).

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1. VOLUME

Often referred to as “Expression” in our

Kontakt Libraries, this is a simple control that

adjusts the level of the technique.

2. DYNAMICS

This will limit the lowest velocity playable,

essentially acting as a dynamic range

compressor.

3. KNOB

The configurable knob allows you to control

any of the other available parameters for the

particular technique.

Hover over the knob and it will light up

3.1 CLICK: Click in the center of the knob

and you will be able to assign any of the

remaining available controls to the knob.

Right click on any of these controls to assign

them to a MIDI controller. Remember that if

you assign a MIDI controller to a parameter

via the knob, the MIDI controller will follow

the parameter rather than being permanently

assigned to the knob.

MAIN CONTROLS

1 2 3 3.1

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1. MIXER PRESETS

Load and save your own mixer presets

here, this is a good way for you to share

your mixes across different instruments and

presets. Click on the down arrows to save

and the up arrows to load.

2. SIGNAL ON/OFF

Here you can turn signals on or off (you can

also turn them on by fading them up). If you

turn a signal on, pay attention to the LED in

the top left of Cinematic Percussion, if it is

flashing red, it means that the samples are

still loading into RAM and you should wait

before playing again to avoid glitches.

3. CONTROLS

A. REVERB

This controls the amount of reverb being

added.

B. HIGH PASS

Controls the cutoff frequency of the high

pass filter.

C. LOW PASS

Controls the cutoff frequency of the high

pass filter.

SIGNALS AND EFFECTS 5

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TOP MENU

1. LED

Shows when an instrument is loaded by

lighting solid green. If this is flashing, your

instrument is not loaded yet

2. CPU METER

An indication of how much your CPU is being

taxed, the green flash next to the CPU meter

will turn red when you are overloading it.

3. DISK METER

How hard are you taxing your hard drive? If

this is close to, or going over 100% it’s time

to consider a faster drive. See next page for

settings that can help get the most out of a

slower drive

4. MEMORY

This shows how much RAM you are currently

using in this instance of Cinematic

Percussion. While the preset is loading,

this will show the instrument loading into

memory.

5. VOICES

Shows how many voices are being used at

any one time.

6. REFRESH

Refresh the instrument, alt-click to refresh

the whole plug-in. This can be useful if you

have hanging MIDI notes or have moved

samples in your file system

7. MIDI CH

Set the MIDI channel that will control the

instrument here. If in doubt select “all” so

that the instrument will react to any incoming

MIDI messages.

8. TUNE

Move this knob to tune in semitone

increments, shift-click to move in increments

of 0.01 of a semitone. Alt-click to reset to

default

9. PAN

Pan the whole plug-in left and right in the

stereo field. Alt-click to reset to centre.

10. VOLUME

Control the overall volume of the instrument.

11. LEVEL

A visual indication of the level of the

instrument.

12. PRESET SETTINGS

A. VELOCITY RESPONSE — Pick from

4 different velocity curves to suit your

controller.

B. CC MAPPINGS — Clicking on Reset

will reset all of the CC mappings for this

instrument to the defaults - useful if you’ve

got yourself in a mess!

Clear CC Mappings - Delete all CC mappings

- this is good if you have a clear idea of what

parameters you want to control and want to

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start from a clean slate!

For a list of all the default CC mappings,

please see Appendix C.

13. PLUGIN SETTINGS

A. COPY SETTINGS — Common Controller

values will transfer over to other Spitfire

Products

B. HELP TEXT — Turn this on to display

parameter information in the bottom left

corner of the plug in.

C. DEFAULT SIZE — Set whether the

instrument opens up collapsed or expanded

by default.

D. DEFAULT SCALE — How big the

instrument is when you open it as a fraction

of its original size. Here you can “get” the

current scale of the instrument or change

the value and press set to change the scale

of the instrument. Press “save” to save the

current scale as the default and press “reset”

to change the current scale to the default

value..

E. AUTOMATIC UNLOAD WITH MIXER FADER

— Toggle this to unload data from RAM

when fader is pulled down to the bottom.

F. GAIN UNITS — Toggle this if you want your

gain to be displayed in dB instead of as a

percentage.

G. DISABLE HOST AUTOMATION — Turn this

on to enable the Host Automation from the

DAW.

H. CHANGE KNOB DRAG TYPE— This option

changes how the knob interacts with your

computer mouse, turn it off for a circular

drag and on for vertical drag.

I. DISABLE WARNINGS FROM MISSING

SAMPLES — This option will stop error

messages appearing when you are missing

samples, only enable this option if you

intentionally delete samples you are not

using.

J. DISABLE AUTO HIDE KNOB PARAMETER

GROUP — Normally the Knob parameter list

will disappear when you click on another

control, enable this option to have it stay

visible instead.

K. MAXIMUM VOICES — Enter the maximum

number of voices that can play at once. More

voices = More CPU and memory used.

L. PRELOAD SIZE — The minimum number

of sample values preloaded into memory for

each audio recording. Increase for slower

hard drives. Default is 12888.

M. STREAM BUFFER SIZE — The number of

sample values kept in memory for each audio

recording stream at any time. Increase for

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slower hard drives. Default is 65536.

N. MASTER TUNING — The default tuning (in

Hz) of the A above middle C.

O. DEFAULT PRESET — Choose a preset that

you wish the plug in to load by default on

launch

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MICROPHONE SIGNALS

The closest option, this signal will add

definition to the sound.

ROOM

This signal is a combination of Tree, Ambient,

and Outrigger mic signals.

DISTORTED

A full on gritty signal, useful for adding some

dig into the mix.

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APPENDIX A —

FAQS AND TROUBLESHOOTING

Q: WHAT ARE THE SYSTEM

REQUIREMENTS?

MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS X

10.13 to OS 12

Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core), 8GB RAM

Machine must be connected to the internet

during install

PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows

7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11

(latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

Minimum: (64-bit) Intel Core 2.8GHz i5

(quadcore) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

Machine must be connected to the internet

during install

Q: I WANT TO RESET MY CINEMATIC

PERCUSSION SETTINGS TO THE

DEFAULT

You can delete the Originals - Cinematic

Percussion.settings file to reset the settings

to default. This is located at Users/username/

Music/Spitfire Audio/Settings on a Mac

and C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\

Spitfire Audio\Settings on a PC.

Q: MY LIST OF PRESETS IS EMPTY,

HOW DO I SOLVE THIS?

If you have moved your Originals - Cinematic

Percussion Library folder, you can solve

this problem by using the “Locate Library”

feature in the Spitfire Audio App.

If this does not solve the problem, the library

likely needs reauthorising, to do this, use the

“repair” feature in the Spitfire Audio App.

Q: I SEE A RED EXCLAMATION MARK

IN THE TOP LEFT OF ORIGINALS

- CINEMATIC PERCUSSION, WHAT

DOES THIS MEAN?

This means that there is an error, you can

click the exclamation mark to open a log

with further details. It is likely that using the

“Repair” and “Locate Library” features in the

Spitfire Audio App will solve the problem

but if not, contact our support team at

spitfireaudio.com/support and attach the log.

Q: CAN I INSTALL ON MORE THAN

ONE COMPUTER?

With our products you have two licenses.

This means that you are allowed to download

and install on two computers you own,

say your main rig and your mobile rig. If

you have purchased the library on a hard

drive, you should copy the contents of the

drive on to the destination machine before

completing the download with the Spitfire

App. If you downloaded Originals - Cinematic

Percussion, you can copy the library folder

over to the second machine and then use the

“Repair” and “Locate Library” features in the

Spitfire Audio App.

Q: I CAN’T SEE THIS IN THE

KONTAKT LIBRARIES PANE AND

WHEN I TRY AND LOAD IT INTO

KONTAKT IT SAYS NO LIBRARY

FOUND

This library does not run in Kontakt, it is a

standalone plug-in that you can run in your

chosen DAW.

Q: HOW DO I AUTHORISE ORIGINALS

ON A MACHINE NOT CONNECTED TO

THE INTERNET?

It is currently not possible to authorise

Originals - Cinematic Percussion on a

machine not connected to the internet.

Authorisation is done with the Spitfire Audio

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App and an internet connection is required.

Q: HOW CAN I REDOWNLOAD A

PRODUCT?

This can easily be done via your Spitfire

Audio App. To reset both your entire library

download or the latest update;

• Open up the Spitfire Audio App and log in

with your account email and password.

• Select the product artwork you wish to re-

download

• On this page is a “cog wheel”. Select this,

choose “reset” from the menu. Then “Reset

Entire Download” (for a full download) or

(Latest Update) for the latest update.

This will reset your latest update ready for

install again. You can repeat this process for

any of the libraries you own.

Note that there is a limit to how many times

you can reset your downloads in a certain

time frame. If you do exceed your reset limit

please get in touch.

Q: DIFFICULTIES IN DOWNLOADING /

INSTALLING

Customers may find that they have some

difficulties in the downloading process. If you

find that you are having some trouble, please

check the list below for possible causes:

• The formatting of your drive, if it is FAT32

this will cause errors, because there is a

maximum file size with this format of 4GB

and our download files will exceed this limit.

To solve this problem, reformat your drive or

use a different drive. We recommend NTFS

on PC andMac OS Extended(journalled)on

Mac.

Other possible issues:

• Spitfire App freezes in the “Extracting”

stage for hours. This may be because our

libraries are often very large files, and this

is the stage where the compressed files are

extracted and placed in their final locations

on the hard drive. There could be hundreds

of GB of content to unpack, so it really can

take hours. If you’re unsure whether it has

crashed or is simply extracting files, visit

the installation folder you chose when you

started the install. If everything is working

normally you’ll see various files appearing in

the folder (or one of its sub-folders).

• If you see a “Download interrupted”

message may be caused by a change in IP,

usually the case with people using a VPN,

or people who for some reason started a

download in one country and tried to resume

it in another. In this case, please submit a

support ticket and we can unblock you.

• If your download gets stuck and is

continually cycling and not resuming, please

get in touch with us, giving us as much detail

as possible about your set up. It would be

helpful if you can tell us your operating

system, where you are downloading from

(your country, and also whether you’re at

home or work), your ISP, and whether there

are any proxy servers or firewalls between

your computer and the internet.

Q: I HAVE FAST INTERNET, WHY IS

MY DOWNLOAD SLOW?

We have no direct influence on your actual

download speeds, our libraries are hosted on

servers which are normally very quick but it

may well be that at certain times of the day

when traffic is particularly busy, your ISP may

throttle your connection speeds.

We would advise you to leave your download

running overnight as speeds should ramp

up at less busy times. Our Spitfire App

downloader aims to use as much of the

available bandwidth as possible to give you

the quickest possible speeds, and may take

several minutes to reach its peak.

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Q: CAN I TRY BEFORE I BUY?

No - it is not currently possible to demo our

products.

If you go to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL you’ll

see many walkthroughs containing detailed

info about all our products -- you can hear

them being played in real time with no

smoke and mirrors!

Q: MY LIBRARIES ARE NOT SHOWING

UP IN MY SPITFIRE APP

A handful of customers may find that when

they log into their Spitfire App, some of

their previously purchased products do not

show up in the ‘Installed’ section or in the

‘Download Ready’ section either. It may

be that you have purchased these under

another email address. Checking other

possible email addresses for your previous

purchases may help to find these missing

products. If this is not the case, and these

missing products were purchased a few

years ago, please create a support ticket

telling us your account email address, and

any serial numbers you may have to go

with these missing products. Our support

team can also merge one or more accounts

together if you’d like to consolidate all your

purchases in one place.

The more information we have, the quicker

we can get you back up and running!

Q: HOW DO I UPDATE MY

PRODUCTS?

The main premise of downloading our

products is that our Spitfire App downloads

into the folder you choose, so it is important

to choose the folder above where you want

the download to go. The best file path for

our products is something very simple, a

long file path will cause errors as there is a

character limit on how far the Spitfire App

can read. We advise a file path of something

along the lines of: Samples Drive > Spitfire

Audio

When it comes to downloading / updating

- if you have a folder called ‘Spitfire Audio’

always point the Spitfire App to the folder

Spitfire Audio - never go into this folder and

choose the actual library in question.

Q: HOW DO I REDOWNLOAD THE

LATEST UPDATE?

With the continuous improvements to our

Spitfire Audio App, we have incorporated the

ability to reset your own downloads.

This can easily be done via your Spitfire

Audio App.

Open up the Spitfire Audio App and log in

with your account email and password.

• Select the product artwork you wish to re-

download

• On this page is a “cog wheel”. Select this,

choose “reset” from the menu. Then “Reset

Entire Download” (for a full download) or

(Latest Update) for the latest update.

• This will reset your latest update ready for

install again.

You can repeat this process for any other

updates you wish.

If you do not see the option to reset your

download in your Spitfire Audio App, we

would advise to download the latest version

of the Spitfire App from spitfireaudio.com/

info/library-manager/.

Q: I’VE BEEN WAITING AGES FOR MY

DOWNLOAD LINKS...???

We run all our orders through a fraud

checking process. The automatic fraud check

takes 20 minutes (but can take up to an

hour during a very busy period, e.g... Black

Friday), but if your order gets caught at this

stage, we run a manual order check, and this

can delay the processing of your order for up

to 24 hours (though this would be a rare and

exceptional case).

You should however receive an order

confirmation email IMMEDIATELY upon

placing your order. This confirms that

your order has successfully been logged

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in our system and that your payment was

successfully taken. Please check your junk

folders before contacting our support. The

message will come fromdo_not_reply@

spitfireaudio.com if you’d like to add us to

your whitelist.

Q: CAN I DOWNLOAD ON A PC,

THEN TRANSFER TO A MAC OR VICE

VERSA?

Yes, you can copy the library folder and

plugin files over to the second machine

and then use the “Repair” and “Locate

Library” features in the Spitfire Audio App.

Please note that although the majority of

the download can be done on a separate

machine, you will always need an internet

connection to finish the authorisation

process.

Q: HOW DO I DOWNLOAD

PRODUCTS ON MAC OSX 10.9?

The version of the Spitfire App needed to

install Originals only supports Mac OSX 10.10

and upwards.

Q: I HAVE FOUND A BUG

In some cases we can’t squash them all and

bugs shamefully make their way through.

If you think you have found a bug, please

• A description of the bug you have found

• A screencast (video) of the bug happening,

or an audio example

• The exact preset name (or presets) in

question and also the library giving us as

much detail as possible will help us get to

the bottom of the issue.

Q: WHAT IS YOUR REFUNDS /

RETURNS POLICY?

If you have NOT completed the download /

installation process, then we CAN refund /

return your product, please contact support

with your account email address and order

number so we can handle this quickly. If you

HAVE completed the installation process

(even if you’ve not yet registered your serial

number), please see our EULA in regards to

why we do not accept refunds and returns.

We can refund hard drive orders up until

the point when the drive is dispatched from

our office. This is usually 1-2 days after you

order.

Q: I’VE FORGOTTEN MY PASSWORD?

If you have forgotten your password, please

see this link spitfireaudio.com/my-account/

at some point in the past you asked us to

merge two or more accounts but have since

forgotten, you MAY find that the forgotten

password isn’t working for the email address

you asked us to merge FROM. In this case,

please contact support with your name, and

any email addresses you think we might

know about, and we’ll work out what has

happened.

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APPENDIX B —

TECHNIQUES/MICS/MIXES

INSTRUMENTS:

CYMBALS

TAMS & GONGS

EARTHQUAKE HITS

METAL HITS

PERCUSSION HITS  HIGH

PERCUSSION HITS  LOW

SWELLS

SIGNALS

• Condenser

• Room

• Distorted

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